Sunday: Eau Claire to Prairie du Chen Wis

The story of our trip continues with another promising day beginning with a heavy dew on the sleeping cars in the parking lot of the Country Inn and Suites of Eau Claire.  We discovered later the dew was supplemented by the landscaping sprinklers...some poor planning on the part of the hotel management to get their guests cars all wet overnight.

Boyles and Koenig cars asleep

Hahn and Kneisley cars asleep
 

 

The route was mainly southbound so the sun was in our face most of the day but with a few clouds the sun beams were tolerable.  Good that I put sunscreen on today though.

 

Some 40 miles later we got our first glimpse of the mighty Mississippi River.

And moments later we saw this Morgan and several other Brit cars parked on the street in Alma, Wisconsin....

 so we pulled in to investigate

 

The Morgan, we discovered belonged to Tom Politski who is the editor of the Minnesota Mania Morgan Club newsletter.  I met him in Arizona a year or two ago. He caught up with us and was delighted to have run across the wandering Morgan Pub Crawl.  Nice chap and fun to talk to.   His 1986 Plus 4 is still propane powered as it was when it was delivered to him new in 1986.  All of the Brit cars were in town for a hill climb event yesterday.  After a night of frivolity they were having a group breakfast before returning to their respective homes.

Tom Politski and Sally

 

 After our chance meeting with the Brit car owners we went up to Buena Vista city park to get a better perspective of the river.

Looking south from Alma, Wis.

Looking north from Alma, Wis

The Dam and lock at Alma, Wis

 

 And the opportunity to get a keepsake photos

Gary and Sally

Bob and Missy

 Barn quilts are everywhere here in Wisconsin... a colorful touch to old and new barns alike.  

Further down the Mississippi the river gets wider and wider

 

 

 

We are staying in Prairie du Chen Wis. tonight and after a short Noggin' most of us went to dinner at a nearby restaurant where they served what I thought was an Ohio dish.... Walleye.  Very good, indeed. 

 

Tomorrow we cross the river into Iowa for the trip to La Claire, a suburb of Davenport.